The Clippers don't want to change their story: they let 19 points escape and there will be Game 7 against the Nuggets

The story is curious.

More in sports.

The best result in the history of the

is a conference semifinals.

They have never achieved more.

Not even with

.

Not even with

.

Not even being the

.

Not even being the

.

Because sometimes the story weighs more than everything.

While the

have conquered all possible NBA galaxies, the Clippers are still fighting to send someone to the moon.

They fight for the first Western Conference final in their entire life.

And, despite being better than its rivals, despite having more basketball conditions on paper than anyone else, it is the team that will suffer the most to be in the last four positions that give permission to fight for the ring.

Because the squad led by ring winner

and led on court by ring winner and

winning by nearly 20 points at the start of the third quarter of the sixth game of their tie against the Denver Nuggets, a franchise full of young but excellent players and with a coach,

, who is not even 50 years old (48).

And there in the middle of the final episode of the most brilliant chapter of his life, the Clippers were shipwrecked.

Despite Rivers and Kawhi, they

, gave wings to some Nuggets who really believe they can give the bell and will face one of the biggest failures in their history in a chilling final 48 minutes.

The first part showed why the Los Angeles franchise owns the best names in the NBA.

Kawhi Leonard hammers non-stop on offense and defense and

can be, when he wants, one of the best players in the league.

scores from the bench and his inside game, with

can defend against anyone.

All this with a minimum condition:

.

The Clippers are lazy and, despite their history, they believe they have something they haven't yet accomplished, and that weighs down.

Almost as much as a jersey that has not yet stepped into the Finals.

Despite a 19-point lead,

managed to come back from the game and keep the Nuggets alive in the Playoffs.

After a free throw from Michael Porter Jr, another promising youngster on his way to the All-Star, they finished the third quarter 79-77.

And the last period is history and can be summed up in an

, who took the 98-111 victory.

The Clippers did not have an answer, or did not want to have it, against the baskets of their rival, who little by little was closing the gap and got ahead, and increased rents, without an Angelina response.

Jokic, who had scored 15 points in the first half, finished with

, unstoppable for either Zubac or Harrell.

and Gary Harris scored 16.

Opposite, beyond George's 33 and Kawhi's 25, nowhere.

2 from Zubac, 2 from Beverley, 5 from Morris, 1 from Shamet, 5 from Harrell ... What in theory is the most complete roster in the league has succumbed at the most important time of the year.

The

, always unpredictable, can be arranged between Kawhi, George and Doc Rivers, but the image, this image, of these Clippers, gagged by Jokic, Murray and their brood of teenagers just out of the draft does not convince for the supposed candidacy to the title, not even for a Conference finals that, we repeat, that shirt has never stepped on.

We'll see in a couple of days.

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